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Theme Of Communication In Romeo And Juliet

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Communication: The Secret to Healthy Relationships “Communication to a relationship is like oxygen to life.” This quote from Tony Gaskin, a 38 year-old motivational speaker and life coach uses a lot of his research regarding relationships. However, Tony Gaskin is not the first person to think this. Around 407 years earlier lived the great William Shakespeare. He used his play Romeo and Juliet to express the theme that communication is vital to success. First and foremost, Romeo and Juliet make the ultimate decision to not communicate to others of their marriage. This is their first mistake. Romeo and Juliet acquire cousin-in-laws, father-in-laws, and mother-in-laws unbeknownst to their families. This causes a great deal of violence between the ignorant Tybalt and Romeo. Before the fight, Romeo tells Tybalt “Villain am I none. Therefore farewell; I see thou knowest me not” (3.1.63-63). Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt because he is family; however, Tybalt purposely wants to fight Romeo because he believes that they are not family. Furthermore, Lord Capulet arranges a marriage between Paris and Juliet because he does not know of Juliet’s marriage to Romeo. Capulet is confused as he questions his …show more content…

At the end of Romeo and Juliet, once Friar Laurence and Balthasar tell the whole story, Shakespeare shows the audience what could have happened if Romeo and Juliet had expressed their marriage to Lord Montague and Lord Capulet. Importantly, Lord Capulet says “O brother Montague, give me thy hand” (5.3.296). Lord Capulet recognizes Romeo and Juliet’s marriage as he calls Lord Montague his brother. Not only does Lord Capulet approve of the marriage, Lord Montague does too. This is apparent when he says “there shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet” (5.3.301-302). They even tell each other that they will construct a statue made of pure gold for the other’s

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While knowing this, though, Laurence still weds them and agrees to their marriage. This affirms the idea that he is continuing lies around the town, not allowing the Capulet or Montague families to know that their children are married. This is shown with (IV.iii) when Capulet is happy that Juliet has agreed to marry Paris. The reader knows at this time that Juliet is married to Romeo, but Lord Capulet does not, showing that nobody has told him that Juliet is already married. This further proves that the blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet should be placed on Friar

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Additionally, when Lord Capulet held a ball, Romeo has sneaked in with his friends which led to Tybalt realizing that he found Romeo at the Capulet party. His aggression towards Romeo contributes to the tragedy, therefore Tybalt is enraged that Romeo was at the party, saying, "Now by the stock and honour of my kin, / To strike him dead I hold it not a sin" (1.5.57-58). This conveys that Tybalt is eager to pursue violence to defend his family's honor, even if it threatens other people’s safety. This accost eventually leads to Tybalt's death which causes Lord Capulet to bring forward Juliet’s marriage to Paris. It created more pressure on Romeo and Juliet’s constrained relationship.

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Romeo and Juliet's marriage was kept a secret from their families, which is what led to misunderstandings and eventually their deaths. In Act 2, Scene 6, Friar Laurence says to Romeo, “Come, Come with me, and we will make short work. For, by our leaves, you shall not stay alone till holy church incorporate two in one.” Friar Laurence also tells Romeo, “These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and power, which, as they kiss, consume.” This proves Friar Laurence is at fault because he married them knowing the Montagues and Capulets had a rivalry that would cause a problem in their marriage.

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The Montague and Capulet family feud made Romeo and Juliet believe they could not tell anyone about their marriage. The Capulets and Montagues were always at each other’s throats. An example of this was when the servants of both families were starting trouble with one another (Shakespeare I.1.36-50). The servants begin to argue, and this leads to Prince Escalus explaining how three fights have happened in the past. The Prince decides to put a stop to these fights by stating, “If ever you disturb our streets again /

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After marrying Juliet, Romeo is now related to Tybalt through marriage. Later that day, Romeo is confronted by Tybalt who is looking for a fight. After Tybalt calls Romeo a villain, Romeo states, “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee/ Doth much excuse the appertaining rage…” (3.1.58-59).

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However, he still married them because he thought that the alliance would end the long standing Capulet-Montague feud. “...for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (2.3, 91-92). After Romeo goes to the Friar determined to marry Juliet, the Friar agrees to marry them. He believes that if Romeo and Juliet get married, it will end the ongoing feud between the Capulets and Montagues. At the end of act 2 scene 4, the Friar and Romeo are conversing about Romeo and Juliet’s marriage.

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It shows that just the existence of the opposite family can cause fighting and further strife. Tybalt’s unprecedented hatred towards Romeo continues when he tells Romeo that “Thou art a villain” (3.1.60). Based on what is revealed in the play, Romeo and Tybalt have never talked or interacted face-to-face before this meeting with each other. However, despite this Tybalt has no problem calling Romeo a villain, even after Romeo claims he doesn’t want to fight him and instead loves him. Tybalt, like all Montagues and Capulets, automatically assumes that the opposite house is evil and instead of

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This enrages Tybalt, as Romeo is from the Montegue family and Juleit as well as Tybalt are Capulets. “Now by the stock and honor of my kin, To strike him dead I hold it not a sin” (1.5. 55-56) This is seen to be Romeo and Juliet's first challenge in their relationship, as they are from two separate feuding families. Romeo's passion for Juliet is not disrupted by the two families' age long dispute, showing an immense amount of determination by him. Disregarding the family dispute that is going on, Romeo and Juliet meet each other for the first time and share their first kiss.

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To her family, he is just an evil Montague who is their enemy. Lady Capulet believes Juliet will be happier if she marries County Paris because she believes Juliet is grieving Tybalt’s death, not Romeo’s banishment. Rather than seeing her husband’s red flags and leaving him, Juliet has already pardoned him and still wants to be with him. Romeo is a fiend to her family, so it is not easy for the Capulet and Montague to be

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Shakespeare displays this through the death of Romeo and Juliet. When the couple killed themselves for the other, the two houses realized how foolish they were with their hatred. Ultimately they accepted each other as equals when Lord Capulet exclaims, “O brother Montague, give me thy hand” (5.3.313) and Lord Montague replies, “For I will raise her statue in pure gold / There shall no figure at such rate be set / As that of true and faithful Juliet” (5.3.315-318). In a similar fashion, Kovu and Kiara’s love helped end the Pridelanders and Outlanders differences.

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Their opposite behaviors add to the plot and development of both of their personalities, while also making it obvious that Romeo's lack of filial piety will contribute to his downfall. Additionally, the day following the party, Tybalt seeks out Romeo to duel him for crashing the Capulet party as a Montague. Tybalt has immense pride in his family name, and will not tolerate any disrespect, so he tells Romeo that "thou art a villain" (3.1.62). In response to this, Romeo tells Tybalt

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The Capulets and Montagues were not on good terms with each other. Unfortunately though, Romeo and Juliet fell in love with each other regardless if they are from opposing families. Because of these families bad relationship, Romeo and Juliet were forced to marry in secret instead of publicizing it. These two lovers could have been straight-forward to their parents about their marriage, but they choose not to. The Friar is also guilty to these lovers death, but he only thought that this relationship between Romeo and Juliet be the cure to their families grudge for each other.

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Romeo is a Montague, the rival family to the Capulets. The hatred that would lead to his own death started with this grudge. Romeo didn’t do anything to hurt the Capulets, but Tybalt didn’t like his presence. Tybalt got angry at a party over nothing. Tybalt sent a letter to Romeo’s home challenging him to quarrel.

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Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet are unaware of the marriage because if they were to find out about the secret union between a Montague and Capulet, Juliet would be disowned by both parents and she would have disgraced the family name, due to an ancient feud between both families. Children were expected to obey the choices parents made for them, if the child did not obey the choices that have been made, consequences would occur “And you be mine, I'll give you to my friend; [...] An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets (3.5.191 -193) Lord Capulet threatens to throw Juliet out of the house if

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Romeo disagrees and says, “Tybalt, the reason why I have to love thee / doth excuse the appertaining rage” (III I 63-65). Here Romeo expresses his love for Tybalt due to the fact that Romeo is wed to Juliet, Tybalt’s cousin making him a relative of Tybalt. However, Romeo does not reveal why he loves Tybalt. Mercutio fights for Romeo and is slain by Tybalt and Romeo seeking revenge, murders Tybalt and is banished. Both these events cause other events of poor communication to take place in this chain reaction which leads to the dreadful end of Romeo and Juliet.

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